William cook



W. COOK.

DUST COLLECTOR.

Paten Jan, 27,1885.

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A pplionion moll lovenilwr vii To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that l, llretrlmr (leoni, o Co lumbus, in the county ot' Bartholomew onu State of Indiana, have inventori a nonr ond, useful Improvement in Dustolleetore; and do hereby declare that the ibllowing f" i'nll, elear, and exaet deseription ol tinx ini n'ionu Myinvention relates to flu:st-oolleoA is nn iniln'oreinent .in duet Collectors stantially such as thnt shown in Letto'li ent granted to Funstin Prinz on the lotl of February, 1883, NosU 272,lf"

o and f In the machine leseribetl in said liet l ent the dust-collector eousifsts ot' rnltllnllg/-aw ranged seetions fornnling,` a rlrui'n or ballomi.,H the radial Wallsof which moo" eloib, :nl to I permit the passage oi' nir, nhioh passage is strained or freed. from its (in The center of the balloon is onen, "nl t purified air is discharged therefrom. l.;

loon revolves with n stenbystep motion, step being equal to the inner peripheral nle of the section, Thus the sections are "oro in succession under :s ehznnher or tube emtending longitudinally "if the balloon in he mno center, and having a slotted bottoni :intl an air-tight top,l with suitable pochino', so tlntt as a section is arrested miller the elnnnlier it is isolated 'from the other sretions ol' the bnfl loon, and is in communication with the slot ted chamber. This ehnntber, being.;` in eeniinunieation with the atmosphere, admits en ternal air tothe section thus isolat'eil from the other parts ol the balloon, is therefore drown through the tube anni reversely through. the isolated seetion, :nul thenee book through the :fieotions not isolated,

to the open center of the bnlloon, `intl thence to Ythe suotion-fnn. BJ this construction n roverse current is inilueel. through Ithe is( section, which current is designee it tir (D the dust allherino` to the eloth anu io nhl the b l `jar of the blow, in. musing; it to dren to the receptacle .beloiiannl lenire the, iiflotl. `dean; but the entrent thus induced ,i

pherethronghthe isolated st Aions, :mili througlrthe nonisolateil. emotions, newr rly feeble by reason ol;x its nurrow und era audextonded way, :intl by reason, also, ot' its enforeetl passage through an amount o' Moth The onreine nir nn the zttniofi f henne l (No nlfniul l nt thrriaugh whielr the main eurrent e simply an influoetl and eireuilnus l epplieil but a short time es with the nain onrrent. lts efi'eet lhe impurities in the e ellen oi' a tibi-ons or hoiry eeolne no iii-lilly attached to and ne eloth that neither the jarring need. reverse enrrent een remove e antonin@ onore rel'erreri to is er'leet in its notion, for the th, is not ei'leotnnlly eleaneil.

Potion it is the objeet of my inamion or seetions oi' n isolated therewith, while tno main fontlinierl; through the other seo- .lottezl ai A:..ollr oi' the soot entrent l o i 4nznv manner. i@ o" ain this in univoo enrrent by leaning u pipe in the ense oi' the inllueilnr-an to theslottetl ninehznnber orer the isolated. seetion or see tions, nlthongli l muy lead the pipe (but not .so eonvoniently) from a separate inn.

in. the neeo'nipnnying drawings, lfignre l shone :t mosuseetion ol' balloon with :ti rrhanl f lfigr. shows aside elevation ofthe patents, anni 'the ehoinber is oonto o.. pipe, o, and by a. pipe, o', to a pipe, iieh the l'nlrease ll, Ioonted on the o intl nl; the eenter ol the "oailvwimlaseg Ali the neet-ieri of the balloon, exeepting o and. tboseeon ii,o1is{ofolon hsile,aresubjeet to She inout l current troni outside to center, ne the nrrone l eh'ow. The Seel/ions ooft" are.

s i'or l' linie subjeeiei'l. to ai dir/oet troni. the .ihn more powerful thon thatV milieu to angl ollnireeetion, anti the blast be i* o ilireolion, :is shown by trrons iiiriloilge lthe thisA :Minen s, and n'nh the iur onnses :nnl to fall to the conveyliv ICO

. do norlim, myself ro the precise eensbruetion of the pipe and slonsed chamber, nor to the point of mpping The pipe may Toe le (though not so conveniently) to a rate fan, which, if the induced main current be used, may be or' less power, es the two eurrens (the direct ehrough the slotterl chamber and the inneed. main current) Worllrl aeb together. l

As shove described, a current o1 aleen air je forced @Through the isolatedL porten of lxe sloth n order to free it of adhering dust per idoles. if a seperate fan be used with induced malin eurren, it may be made es powerful as may be found necessary, and thus the clothnay be kept clean and uniform and perfect work be insured in the (lust-Collector.

llt will be understood that when the funs attachedv to the dnstcollector are used es 2o above described one or both fans may neusedfa chzmnber isolzrtng the seelaons, and adapted set forth. A

In testimony whereof lmresgned. my name to this specification iu the presenee of two snbscribir'rg witnesses.

YVILLULM 000K. VVtnesses: l

OSCAR J. SINQEBAUGH, URIAH M. STEENBARGER.

:l fan connected ro 'ille seid slotter tube or L,

to force air rhrough said isolnred sections, 

